José Cárdenas Bunsen is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 2008. He especializes in the political languages of the sixteenth century and in the Andalusian intellectual network of Garcilaso Inca de la Vega. He is the author of ‘Escritura y derecho canónico en la obra de fray Bartolomé de las Casas’ and of ‘La aparición de los libros plúmbeos y los modos de escribir la historia. De Pedro de Castro al Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’ (Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2011, 2018). He is currently preparing a collection of newly discovered documents related to the ecclesiastical career of Garcilaso Inca in Córdoba. José Cárdenas Bunsen has also taught at Bucknell University and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Perú.